Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene: 0 - Brossura

Samman, Nadim

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ISBN 10: 377575265X ISBN 13: 9783775752657

Casa editrice: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg, 2023

Riassunto

A critical appraisal of art’s entanglement in technological encryption

“We are all inside this thing—but how?” This book explores 21st-century art’s reckonings with the technosphere. Outlining the concept of encryption that underlies this infrastructural condition, Samman explores motifs of confinement, capture and burial, as well as access and exclusion from secured domains. Poetics of Encryption excavates the art of our times in relation to these motifs, as it quests through caves, cables, codes, satellites and icons. Toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming, it surveys a counterintuitive aesthetic of the interface.
Nadim Samman (born 1980) is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. In 2019 he was First Prize recipient of the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). Major curatorial projects included the 4th Marrakech Biennale (2012), the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2015) and the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017).

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NADIM SAMMAN is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. He read Philosophy at University College London before receiving his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Widely published, in 2019 he was First Prize recipient of the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). Major curatorial projects included the 4th Marrakech Biennale (2012), the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2015) and the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017).

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Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape. Running counter to erroneous claims regarding a new culture of transparency and openness, such artworks address black sites, black boxes, and black holes-all the while, toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 377575265X
• ISBN 13: 9783775752657
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 159
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